The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-07-27

IF Point Pleasantpapers are worth
reading, they are worth paying for.
Mason county is getting some
very fine horses within its borders.
The splendid rains just come in
the nick of time.
"The good die young" not
apply to newspapers.
We pity the aeshy people during
this heated term.
There has been very favorable
change in the weather.
a little street cleaning just now,
wouldn't hurt the town.
H. G. Nease, Esq, is making a
very popular Sheriff.
Our town offers superior induce
ments for manufacturing.
Several sun-strokes about the
public works, last week.
1t is cruel to keep the County and
Circuit Clerks in such a-sweat-box.
+ The bane of this town is the cred
it system.
A side track willsbe put in at DIR.
Roush's Coal Works. at New Haven.
What is the use of having money
unless you put it to work?
Rankin Wiley, jr., has crop of
1900 bushels of wheat, threshed and
ready for market.
We could and would build up this
town, if we had the money some of
our neighbors have.
In these booming times every
man ought to put his shoulder to
the wheel and help the town along.
We are glad to see our people at
last beginning to erect tenement
houses.
The grading of Sixth street is
about completed, and Mr.. Graham
has made good job of it.
The New York Clothing House
will continue TO do business at the
old stand.
Farmers are rejoicing over the
prospect of bountiful crop of corn;
the recent rains saving it.
The court house we'll is a dirty,
filthy place, and the authorities do
not seem disposed to remedy it.
The Gallipots would not support
the Sun, so it went in behind the
clouds, and refused to shine.
The blackberry season is about
over, and the head of the family is
glad of it, no doubt
Thieves burglarized Mrs. Pome-
roy's and Mr.. Hanleys kitchens, one
night last week.
The locust trees are to be cut out
of the court house yard, to give the
naples a chance to spread them
selves.
We need city school house badly,
but how are we going to get it, is
the question:
When Mr.. Moredocl< gets through
with the court house and premises,
it will look like a different place.
There are but few offices that do
as good job work as the REGISTER,
and none better.
A brakeman on the Ohio River
Railroad, Wednesday, while coup
ling cars at Williamstown, had one
of his arms badly crushed.
During the thunderstorm Sun
day, Perry Gabbert's barn was
struck by lightning, tearing off one
corner of the building.
Bob Somerville, the sheep buyer,
says he has travelled over three
thousand miles on horseback, since
the LIST OF March.
We have good many business
men in this town. but only a few of
them advertise, and they do about
all the business.
One of the actresses burned to
death in the Hurley, Wisconsin fire
was Miss Title Moore, who has rel
atives in Point Pleasant.
A new edition of the potato bug,
bound in stripes, has appeared in
Illinois, and it bids fair to eclipse
all former editions in point of the
devastating work that it does.
a man who won't work for his
town is very much akin to the man
who won't work for his family
Neither one is of much account and
should be ''fired."
When Gallipot wants to leave
his city, he has to drive up to Point
Pleasant to take the railroad, as
trains have quit running in that
direction.